There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance.
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.
I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.
Art should offend people because art should challenge people.
I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
I always find it amazing that people get mad because they can't figure out my gender. Even though my only job here is to create art, I think being a genderless figure... it shakes people. And when that happens, it makes me feel like I'm doing my job.
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.
Resolve and thou art free.
When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.
When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.
I want to be free... free to develop my art.
I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become clear.
Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
When I say 'art healed me,' it really healed me!
It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.
